i see the world as an open canvus. what i need to do is decide what type of player and what type of person i need to be.

As a player, I want to be a serious player. I want to take the game serious and out-work and out hustle every player on the field. I aslo want to be dependable and reliable. I also want to play hard and hustle like my pants are on fire. I also want to play every game like its my last- very hard, aggressive, scared shitless, nervous, etc.

i need to work on the hierarchy of needs to keep myself mentally able.

its about when you achieve success, you already know that you were going to get there and its not a particularly big deal

Its above leveraging the bat with the back arm, from the back. Its about rotating the bat around the back forearm and not the hands pushing the bat.

Don’t pull with the back arm either.

Get the hips firing first and the bat swiveling earlier, and only resisting the rotation of the hips wit the shoulders

Swivel as you rotate the upper body

How you link seperation is by swiveling as the body turns the hands around

Swivel as the hips turn

When you achieve your highest goals, you feel as though it’s a completion of a task you already knew you could do and not a particularly big deal

Shoulder tilt

Hips

More stretch

The swing happens perpendicular to the hips

Focus on the bat rotating arou

nd the hand, and not pushing the bat through

Walked into it

Jut left arm

Drills I used: start in seperation and use the insider

Separate and start bat the right way

Separate above shoulder on one knee

Swivel bat perpendicular to hips

Lower body- load hip, drive knee through, get hips full rotation

The focus is on winning, not on your performance or anything else. Dustin Ackley couldn't tell you what he was hitting, probably because he cared about the team more than himself.

get your hands back, away from your body, behind your shoulder. Get your elbow relaxed, but ready to throw the bathead. get wide and on your backside. Seperate your hands from your stride- small stride, move hands back slightly. But definately do it definitively and aggresively and get good at it. As your hands move back, your back knee moves under. You shoulders stay locked in and your hands stay back as your knee moves under. Make sure your back knee is driving your front feel into footplant. Heel timing. Then swivel the elbows and let the bat go backwards.

Keep the bat in a deep grip in your hands.

how do you feel after getting a hit

how you play is more important than what you do

Its all about what kind of competitor you are. If you love the challenge and don't back down from anything, you are a good competitor. If you ask for strength and not easier tasks then you are a great competitor. That's what I need to be. I catch myself saying in the seventh- I hope I don't get another at-bat so I can go 1 for 3. But that's not being a competitor- on any level- because a competitor knows that the next time he gets up he is going to get a hit and that the team is more important than himself and that all he cares about is winning. so therefore, he wants the at-bat because he loves competing, wants his team to win because it is more important than himself, and knows he will get a hit.

My family really holds me back as far as baseball and my career are concerned. My brother and dad come to the games and think they are the analyses team, just adding more pressure to the situation. They sit around and criticize and judge me and they have no clue what they are talking about because they are not athletes, nor have they ever played the game at the level Im playing it at. After my first college game give me this like statistical breakdown of my hands and what I was doing, etc. etc and I'm going, shut the hell up you have never played this game and are not a candidate to give me advice. I could give a fuck less about what they say.

as much as I'd like to deny that I don't want to be a major leaguer because it doesn't suit my personality or genetic makeup, I do. Its all I want to do, its all I've ever wanted to do. I'm scared as shit right now, we have our first game tomorrow.

I need to go out and and forget results, forget analyses, forget thinking, and just play my balls out. Don't focus on anything accept winning, and when your in the game, don't think, just play and have fun. Whatever the results are, don't analyze them and don't worry about them in the game. Whatever happens, put your best effort on the field. Tomorrow might be biblical because I am wound tighter than the seams on the baseball I'm going to be hitting.

to load against the back knee- keep the back knee inside the foot, and turn the foot in slightly, and keep it solid when you turn your hips back.

use your hands.

box it up.

slow, early, swing to take.

stride soft and light. keep head still.

rotate the lead shoulder up and the lead elbow up and then swing without the shoulders: practice triangular turn without the shoulders involvement. The only thing you should be worried about is seeing the ball well. The bottom line is I'm going to be really good and they can't do anything to stop me.

its about results, not how it looks on video. rely on results. keep a log of how your swing feels.

swing without the shoulders. thats the bottom line.

teacherman rythym drill- use hands and lower body

hands rotate bat, lower body doesn't rotate, hip thrusts

be soft, no movement

if you only had one shot to sieve everything you ever wanted in life, would you take it, or let it slip?

the first thing that happens with your hands is you turn the triangle out from under them. Make sure to push out, without this you are just spinning. turn the triangle through contact, swing at a high pitch.

throw the bat through with the back arm.

tip as you stride, don't pull the bat back to one position and keep it there.

tip as you stride, don't pull the bat back to one position and keep it there.

hands not stretched back.

as you push out, turn the triangle.

swing without the shoulders.

barrel turns immediately in my hands.

hands not pulling bat.

bat rotates in vertical plane.

start the swing by dropping the back shoulder and raising the lead arm. don't pull off the ball. Get the feeling of keeping your front shoulder in.

vertical bat plane

passion

intensity

fun

positivity

LOVE